Searchable directories of Jazz Journalists Association member profiles are now online at JJA News. Check the Professional Member Directory if you’re looking…
MoreHerbie Nichols: A Jazzist’s Life By Mark Miller Mercury Press, Toronto, 2009; 224 pp.; $19.95 paperback The jazz world is filled with…
MoreAfter months of internal labor, the JJA’s new online office http://members.jazzjournalists.org (no “www” here)Â has opened for business. Members must update their organizational…
MoreFollowing up our successful and rewarding September 15 Jazz Matters panel discussion, we’re convening another group of critics to take stock of…
MoreA new monthly magazine, Japan Jazz, website http://www.ymm.co.jp/p/jazz_japan.php, has risen from the ashes of Swing Journal, which suspended operations last May. Volume…
MoreNew York, September 16 — The first New York “Jazz Matters” meeting of fall 2010, a listening session with five critics blindfold-testing…
MoreAt the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene By Nat Hentoff (Foreword by Lewis Porter) University of California Press,…
MoreVeteran jazz writer Ira Gitler will join our September 15th panel at the New School. See updated posting below. — Time to…
MoreTime to take stock of the finest jazz releases of the year to this point! We’ll be gathering for an informal jukebox…
MoreThe JJA’s annual dim sum brunch meeting at the Chicago Jazz Festival is Sunday, September 5th, 10 a.m. until approximately noon, at…
MoreJohn Abbott and Bob Blumenthal will be discussing and signing copies of their new book Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins…
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